Sports & Clubs

Elementary Student Participation with LMS Athletics

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Amistad Friendship Society:  The Amistad Friendship Society seeks to build bridges and breakdown barriers among a culturally diverse group of students from 10 area middle schools.  This interdisciplinary program involves students, parents, teachers, and community members as it explores individual attitudes about basic civil rights and practices strategies to reduce prejudice and increase skills of cooperation.

Art Club:  The Art Club is open to all 7th & 8th grade students with a special interest in or talent for art.  Students will have a chance to explore different art media at a more challenging level than in their art class.

Brass Quintet:  Brass Quintet rehearses once a week after school and performs regularly.  Membership is open by audition.

Cheerleading:  Cheerleaders cheer for all our home basketball games as well as compete in regional cheerleading competitions.  All students are eligible to try out.

Climbing Club:  The Climbing Club, also known as the “Rubber Chicken” Club, meets after school during the fall and spring.  Because the enrollment is limited to 12 students, there are different sessions offered.  Students in this club have the opportunity to participate in all the high ropes course elements.

Destination Imagination:  This club provides students with the opportunity to participate in creative, problem-solving activities.  Small teams of students develop solutions for challenging problems and demonstrate their solutions in timed presentations.

Dramatic Arts Club:  This club is open to all students who are interested in dramatics.  The first part of the year is devoted to theater games.  These are designed to give students knowledge, skills, and confidence.  Later in the year, a play is cast, rehearsed, and presented.  Students also build props, paint sets, and operate all sound and lighting equipment.

Fashion Club:  This club is open to all students who have an interest in fashion.  The club meets weekly after school.  Activities include learning to draw fashion plates, meeting a professional designer, and creating jewelry and accessories.  Fashion Club also does charity work such as making “fashionable” walking canes for local seniors.

Homework Club:  This club is run by LHS National Honor Society members.  We meet every Wednesday after school in the media center.

International Club:  Students explore all aspects of various cultures through varied types of activities.

Interscholastic Athletics:  The following sports have boys and girls teams:  cross-country (fall), basketball (winter), and wrestling (winter).  Both 7th and 8th grade students are eligible to try out.

Intramural Programs (Boys & Girls):  Intramural participation provides students with the opportunity to participate in activities either after school or during activity periods. 

Jazz Band:  Jazz Band rehearses one day a week after school and performs regularly throughout the school year.  Membership is by audition.  Wind players must be members of full band in order to participate.  Rhythm players must be able to read music. 

Life Management Club:  The Life Management Club is open to all middle school students during the term they are taking Life Management.  The club provides extra time after school for students to work on more involved and extra sewing, crafts, and foods projects during their time in the Life Management program.

Mathcounts:  The club prepares interested 7th and 8th grade students to compete at the regional, state, and national levels in the Mathcounts Competition.  Students are mathematically challenged in weekly practice sessions throughout the year after school.

Model Rocket Club:  The Model Rocket Club is open to all students who are interested in learning about model rocketry or wish to further their experience and skills in designing, building, testing, and launching model rockets.  This educational space-age hobby offers pleasure, relaxation, excitement, competition, and a sense of accomplishment.

R.I.S.E. Newspaper:  The school newspaper is printed monthly. 

Select Chorus:  Select Chorus is an audition group of students who have demonstrated a high quality of vocal ability and desire to expand their singing experiences.  All voices – sopranos, altos, and baritones practice together and the vocal selections are more challenging than the full Choruses.  This small ensemble rehearses once a week during study hall and at times after school rehearsals may be needed for concert preparation.  Only students from the 7th and 8th grade elective choruses have the option to try-out. 

Talent Show:  Each spring, students produce and perform in a Talent Show.  Students audition to sing, dance, perform comedy routines, play instruments and act as emcees.  Other volunteers help behind the scenes with lighting, sound, and set design.

Trash Can Band:  Trash Can Percussion rehearses once a week after school and performs regularly.  Membership is open, with permission of the instructor, to students who play percussion in full band.

Woodwind Quintet:  Woodwind Quintet rehearses once a week after school and performs regularly.  Membership is by audition.

Yearbook:  This club is open to those interested in yearbook production.

Y.E.S:  “Young Educator’s Society” Club:  This club is open to all those who are interested in teaching as a career.  This is a regional program with a multicultural orientation designed for students who are considering teaching as a career.